Skipper 2nd at IMNZ overnight. With a 2:40 marathon. Fingers crossed for a good season.
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Didn’t he get bumped off his bike a week or so ago as well?
Strewth re Alex Yee’s 30km, 3C and 100% chance of rain too. Nails.
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Good to see a solid outing from Skipper, he’s had a lean year or two
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All that hyrox training paid off then !
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Yes well played Skipper. Things have been pretty ropey for him really since IM WC in Nice 2023.
I did wonder if we’d seen the last of him at the pointy end, but that’s a solid outing. I assume that’s Nice locked and loaded?
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Lionel is his own worst enemy at times. Pre-diabetic.
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What he needs is a total change of direction in his training and diet.
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I also think some of the elite ultra runners are probably similar - John Kelly stuffing down several pizzas/ice cream/doughnuts to keep going - wonder how his cholesterol is …
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At his peak wasn’t Phelps downing something like 7000 calories a day with tubs of ice cream just trying to get calories in.
I’m fairly sure Olympic level rowers and probably others are similar, a lad I worked with said when he was peaking it was actually difficult getting them all in day after day.
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Bit of a myth but lots of fast food yes, close to 10k kcals a day
Being an elite athlete is not healthy
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Think he makes a good point that pro sport is not always a healthy place to be, for all sorts of reasons. The need for loads of carbs to fuel that training load, the risk of acute and chronic injuries, the stress of only getting paid when you push your body to do stuff that’s way off the normal scale , sharks if you swim in the ocean etc etc etc
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Is that like pre-cancerous? Pre-dead? Pre-having an actual problem?
I don’t mean to be flippant of serious issues but does everything need a medical diagnosis?
Pre-drunk.
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I’m not an expert but I think pre-diabetic is ‘on the brink of’ unless you change something significant in your lifestyle imminently, rather than the more general state of just not having diabetes.
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Like Bongo says and like pre-hypertension, elevated levels enough to cause a concern and symptoms in this case but a chance to avoid it with lifestyle changes and not do more damage or require insulin.
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Hopefully Fenella will get sorted soon.
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Jeez that’s tough
Thanks for the link. I saw a couple of days ago that she’d posted a 20-odd minute video explaining what was going on but I’d not got round to watching it - tri247 to the rescue.